Barn Owl Pellet: Each: X-Large Review

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I bought the owl pellets for my two boys. I remembered dissecting owl pellets when I was their age in school and wanted to share the experience with them.

They received these as a Christmas present and after the amusement of their other toys wore off, they were excited to do these. I helped my youngest son open up his aluminum foil covered pellet and was happy to see it was just as I remembered what they looked like. Gray, fuzzy and smell free.

Then I helped my oldest son open his, his first reaction was that it smelled really bad, and when we removed the foil we had two large rat skulls staring up at us. These skulls had caked on fur, that looked like it was shat on by an owl. And the smell reminded me of my dog's favorite perfume, "Dead Squirrel Le Toilette". My assumption was that it escaped sterilization, but encouraged my son to try to remove the fur to get some pretty cool skulls to check out. That worked out, until a maggot crawled out of the skull. After killing the maggot, my oldest son took off, and lost complete interest. I took the skulls and tried to boil the fur off, but found that the skulls still had muscle matter on them and my house was beginning to smell like death. Everything ended up in the trash, including the pan.

In summary, they are fun to dissect and my youngest had a great time identifying the bones with the bone chart enclosed. You do have to provide your own tools. We used tweezers, scalpel and small pick. But, if it smells really bad, you're better off leaving it alone, unless you like bugs, half decayed muscle tissue holding the skulls/bones together.But, I would take the risk again if my children wanted to do these again.

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Perfect size! Ordered this for my boyfriend as a birthday present, and he absolutely loved it. I will be ordering more in the future.

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I'm sorry, but even with the educational value of this "toy," it is just unnecessarily expensive. Cause walking into an owl cage, or out into the forest to find an owl pellet is so hard. Why on Earth does anybody think I'm about to blow five or six bucks just for shipping and handling (on a three dollar item)? Fat chance. Lower the shipping cost and maybe I'll consider buying it, and tell others to buy it too. But for now, I'll stick to walking through the forest.